Partial Differential Equations: Graduate Level Problems and ...
www.math.ucla.edu › ~yanovsky › handbooksPartial Differential Equations Igor Yanovsky, 2005 10 5First-OrderEquations 5.1 Quasilinear Equations Consider the Cauchy problem for the quasilinear equation in two variables a(x,y,u)u x +b(x,y,u)u y = c(x,y,u), with Γ parameterized by (f(s),g(s),h(s)). The characteristic equations are dx dt = a(x,y,z), dy dt = b(x,y,z), dz dt = c(x,y,z ...